What’s The Point Of ‘service Mysqld Reload’?

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August 5, 2014 Martin Božič CentOS 1 Comment

Hi,

I’ve been looking at /etc/init.d/mysql init script and saw that ‘reload’ spits out just ‘exit 3’ and doesn’t actually do anything else.

I’m talking here about stock MySQL on CentOS 6.5.

What’s the reason to do this? It seems quite misleading!

Regards, Martin